What places in the UK have weirded you out?

[Oollliivviiaa]

I know Glastonbury and Bath always come up but where else have you been that just felt "off". Not scary or unsafe as such, just made you feel unwelcome and want to leave. And logically, WHY do you think they do?

Mine are

• Glasgow Centeal station. I've been to lots of stations at all sorts of times but this station always makes me uneasy even during the day when it's busy. Maybe it's because it's such an odd station and easy to get disoriented in.

And

• Berwick on Tweed. Really, really weird vibes there. People were nice enough but it felt a bit like there was some sort of sinister undercurrent. Why? I actually don't know. All I can think of is that it feels quite isolated and a bit like the edge of the world. Maybe the history of the place, means it feels like a no man's land? I know lots of people really like it.

And

• Holy Island. The history, bleakness and again, isolation I think. Plus when we went, all you could hear was the wind and seals which is a bit spooky. I liked it there though.

Yes! I've always lived in - and loved - cities but I couldn't wait to leave Manchester.

Milton Keynes, Luton and Basildon are complete dumps.

Dungeness in Kent and Bradwell on Sea in Essex are bleak and kind of eerie but I actually quite like that.

Tintagel.

In fact the whole of that stretch of north Cornwall. Felt like some fly blown part of Hicksville, USA.

Though I'm from south west Cornwall, so that may be why.

This! A friend and I were saying the same yesterday - she’d actually lived there before but I’d just been to the weekend market a few years ago, which was Hades…

It’s a coal mine, it’s not supposed to look nice and inviting.

Wisbech in Cambridgeshire
Tydd St Mary and surrounding area
Fenland - flat expanses make me uneasy
Slapton in Devon

Might be haunted by all the souls who drowned during the DD preparations. It was hushed up to try and protect morale.

Can't remember exactly which village it was but somewhere in North Wales in the 1990s. Driving through. Stopped into a little shop to buy something and to ask if there were any other public loos around as the main village ones were closed.
There were a couple of locals chatting to the woman at the counter in Welsh, they all stopped talking as soon as I walked in and watched me all the way round the shop.When I asked about the toilets I got the third degree about was I Welsh (I am) where from in Wales, could I speak Welsh (not much) and then one commented "oh, not proper Welsh, then" 😐
They were all in a little group at the counter scrutinising me carefully whilst this conversation went on.

It felt very odd, and unwelcoming and a bit League of Gentlemen Local Shop for Local People. I could imagine them telling me not to touch the Precious Things.

I feel quite weirded out by Suffolk/ Norfolk and how flat it is. Not that it isn’t nice but it’s just so flat!

Making and selling chocolate and perfume but not letting women in is 100% weird.

Liverpool feels very malevolent to me. I can't stand being near the Mersey, it makes me feel very uncomfortable.

In the old woo threads there’s always a mention of savernake forest. Or it may be one poster who keeps sharing the one story about staying in a house there. I have to be honest I don’t know now 🤣. It’s fucking creepy though.

I love Manchester! I’ve been alone in the city centre at 4am before and not felt frightened.

Siloth

Haha yeah there is that, I just find it an odd place with lots of strange characters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleaklow_Bomber

You are not wrong! I have friends and family based around the New Forest but sadly to get there I have to get off the coach at Southampton!

Poole bus station. Finsbury park.

Yeovil - had to wait there for a coach connection for an hour and it just felt rather desolate.

Blackhall Colliery (County Durham).
Like a ghost town, many windows smashed in, all streets looked the same and smackheads staggering around all over the place. The air also smelled of very strong burning coal.

I once went to a house viewing there as the price was amazing. Never returned. 😂

Coleford in the Forest of Dean. League of Gentleman vibes.
Tintagel and Glastonbury. Both for similar reasons.

Hey send the dragons back down to us in the south west - we use them to guard the M5 from anyone up north (ie north of Exeter) coming down here 🤣

I live not far from there . All the grass growing out of the sand and the wooden homes used to creep me out but now it fascinates me . It has a lot of visitors , mainly because Derek Jarman lived there [artist and film director] until he died . He made a garden in the shingle surrounding his home , Prospect Cottage .

Why Camden?

Yes it is the same in St Leonards/Hastings as well.

The London Underground always reminds me of the end scene from 28 weeks later, it is where the apocalypse is going to start.

The Cambridge/ Norfolk Fens when it is misty. You can see why there are so many folk tales from around that area and why The Black Shuck feels like a real thing.